Matthew 5-7 – The Sermon on the Mount

Been reading Matthew chapters 5 – 7 lately. According to Matthew, this is the first of five really big sermons Jesus gives. WARNING – they are all a doozy.

I’ll get into the text itself here, eventually, but one observation I have is this: so much of this is new to me. I know I’ve read it before, but I’m reading it now and have several initial repeating thoughts, which I’ll now list in no particular order:

What the hell does that mean?

Woah, that’s solid.

I don’t understand ‘blessing’ at all.

I have no practical experience with ‘law’ as Jesus talks about it.

I wish I had a really good strong Jewish friend.

Jesus sets one heck of a bar.

I should pray more

I should fast more. I should fast.

What the hell does that mean?

I wonder what new believers think about this sermon, assuming they start reading at Matthew

Logan Ramirez

Native San Antonian Logan Seth Ramirez, graduated from Trinity University with a degree in Computer Science , does analytics professionally, and founded San Antonio based Web Design & Hosting company Orange Pulley, LLC. His creative outlets are music and web design and laughing at his favorite Spanish word, cacahuates.
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